I want to believe Microsoft will continue supporting Xbox and are just developing their strategy at the moment. They're investing money in new hardware after all and just released a good chunk of quality exclusives last year. Marketing deals don't seem too beneficial to them so I can see why they're not doing those much but 2nd party games have been a struggle. Might be their policies, might be something else.
Xbox is the only reason for me to even like Microsoft. I can see it might not be important to that Satay Nutella or whatever his name is, but it's still a well-known valuable brand with millions of customers paying for Live, software and hardware and keeping Microsoft relevant to them. Am I making any sense? 😋